That was a good one, wasn’t it? @Tasso: Would it help if it was reworded “willing to risk death”?

When I read Glenn’s post, what I thought of was a quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

In a state of psychological weakness, weapons become a burden for the capitulating side. To defend oneself, one must also be ready to die; there is little such readiness in a society raised in the cult of material well-being. Nothing is left, then, but concessions, attempts to gain time and betrayal.